Why is the off-year between the north and the south not the same day? What are the different customs?

This is related to the ancient systems and customs. What was the so-called off-year in ancient times? Three officers, four boats and five? Tradition, that is to say, the official off-year is the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, the ordinary off-year is the 24th of the twelfth lunar month, and the government boat is the 25th of the twelfth lunar month. However, because the north is close to the capital, the people are gradually influenced by bureaucracy, and unconsciously they change the sacrifice stove to the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, while the south still maintains the original Han nationality tradition, and still sacrifices the stove on the 24th of the twelfth lunar month. So the south has always been a small year, one day later than the north. The off-year in most parts of southern China is the 24th of the twelfth lunar month, while the off-year in northern China is the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month.

Different off-year customs in north and south.

The first thing you should do in a year in the north is to worship the kitchen god. At the same time, you also like to cut window grilles on this day. In addition, firecrackers will be set off in the northern region before the year, because this is the first shot before the year, which is very important.

In the south, only the custom of worshipping the kitchen god is the same as that in the north. In the south, the first thing to do in off-year is to clean up the dust. Secondly, many southerners will choose to eat a soft glutinous rice cake in off-year days. In addition, there is a very special custom in the south, and that is marriage.

One: the origin of off-year legend has it that the kitchen god was originally a civilian Zhang Sheng. After getting married, he spent all his time drinking and drinking. He lost all his property and went begging in the streets.

One day, he begged at his ex-wife Guo Dingxiang's house, ashamed and burned to death under the stove.

When the Jade Emperor knew this, he thought that Zhang Sheng would change his mind and the ending would not be too bad. Since he died at the bottom of the pot, he has been named the king of the kitchen, reporting to the sky every year on the 23rd and 24th of the twelfth lunar month, and returning to the bottom of the kitchen on New Year's Eve.

People think that the kitchen king must be respected because he has to report to heaven. As a result, people have sacrificial stoves on the 23rd and 24th of the twelfth lunar month? Pray for peace and good luck in the coming year.

Two: Xiaonianguan 1, cleaning.

Every new year comes, every household should clean the environment, clean all kinds of electrical appliances, remove bedding curtains, clean rooms and courtyards, dust off cobwebs and greet the Spring Festival cleanly.

The north is called. Cleaning the house? , the south is also called? Dust? .

Because? Dust? With what? Chen? Homophonic, is there dust removal during the Spring Festival? Chen? The new meaning of (dust) cloth is to put everything? Bad luck? They were all swept out of the house, pinning people's good wishes for breaking the old and building new ones.

2. stick grilles

Most of the window grilles are themed with auspicious patterns, such as the magpie climbing the plum blossom, the deer crossing the spring, the five bats celebrating longevity, the year of the lotus fish, the Yuanyang playing in the water and the harmony between the two immortals.

Sticking red window grilles in a clean room adds joy.

Step 3 eat stove candy

Boiling sugar, there is a layer of sesame seeds outside, which is solidified with maltose inside. It has the effects of strengthening the spleen and stomach, nourishing yin and clearing fire, moistening the lungs and relieving cough.

According to folklore, every year on the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, the Kitchen God will tell the Jade Emperor about the good and evil of this family, so that the Jade Emperor can reward and punish them.

So people sacrifice stoves, which means to paste the mouth of the kitchen god with sugar and say some sweet words the day after tomorrow.